"The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future."

-- Julian Huxley

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“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
“It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.”
“I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you hate your job, don't worry, you won't have it for long.”

Source : George Allen (1990). “Strategies for winning: a top coach's game plan for victory in football and in life”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
“The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.”
“This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.”
“I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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